Hints and tips:
...Chin Chin, the go-to white wine for the image conscious, has a half-dressed red demon on its label....
...Thousands of little Union Jacks were waved, a plasticky sea of red, white and blue....
...A fun bit of trivia: the headquarters of the nameless tech company is actually the FT’s London HQ....
...Among the trivia I picked up was how in the parlance of short-order chefs “wrecked” means scrambled and “the reunion” is shorthand for a chicken and egg sandwich....
...They worked through clues driven by trivia, opacity, misdirection and culture....
...In his Chiswick studio/junk emporium, Blake has collected seven decades of trivia and memorabilia, photographs, posters, labels, stickers....
...Another female banker revealed that below her long skirt lurked a pair of black and white trainers....
...While listening to BBC Radio 4 early one morning, he picked up stray trivia about aphids, the sap-sucking insects that plague Britain’s crops from time to time....
...The new US president and first lady stood outside the door of the White House. And waited. And waited. The wait, as the New York Times reported, lasted all of 10 seconds....
...In the centre of town, a white wooden sign tells arrivals: “You are now in Bedford Falls.”...
...The same year “Scoop, Scandal and Strife”, curated by Sunday Times editor Harold Evans, exploring newspaper photographs as a history of “great events . . . seen embedded in today’s trivia”, wondered “how...
...I am not a republican, as the repository of royal family esoteric facts and trivia still lives in my head from the books on the subject that I devoured as a child in Nsukka in Nigeria in the 70s....
...Presidential dietary preferences used to be filed under amusing trivia, not denounced as moral failings. As a senator, Lyndon Johnson was known to eat a hamburger every day for lunch....
...Searching for an answer to some postal trivia, I discovered a UPU initiative that described how billions of people around the world don’t have addresses....
...Yet often as not, because he saturates his stories with pop culture ephemera, those sentences are full of trivia; the sort of trivia you probably already know....
...about the US economy and the Fed’s intentions Theresa May should take a business approach to Brexit Transformational deals require a supermajority to show shareholder approval Has Google killed the trivia...
...Speak to anyone in politics or the media, and they will lament the degradation of our discourse, the vitriol of social media and a focus on trivia rather than policy....
...Prof Thaler’s insight is that such trivia might lead to important analytical and policy insights....
...Better yet, it helps to be well versed in art-world trivia. Take that pale Jasper Johns flag....
...“I get very impatient with trivia. I can’t — I really can’t be bothered with so many things. Because we literally will all be dust soon. Perhaps sooner than we think. We don’t have long....
...After equivocating briefly, the prime minister was forced to distance herself from her new best friend in the White House....
...He was a doctor from central casting, with thick white hair, spectacles and a perfectly ironed white coat. I asked what he thought of all the alternatives to conventional cancer treatments....
...Later visitors were enthralled: “The dark tunnel entrance,” Nicholas Serota recalls, “the cocooned white space. The studded rubber floor....
...After parking my yellow Mini carefully beside her gleaming red F-type Jaguar, I follow Hackitt in through the side door of a large house with a distinctive two-tone façade: painted white brick on the ground...
...Winners became the pub-quiz trivia of tomorrow but the ceremony itself became something grander, a yearly fix of glamour that TV otherwise could never equal, beamed directly into homes....
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